Yandex
Search engines
YandexMobileBot
Checks whether a page is built for mobile devices.
Follows robots.txt- User agent token
- YandexMobileBot
- Operator
- Yandex
- Verification
- reverse DNS yandex.ru, yandex.net, yandex.com
- Source
- Yandex documentation
What a search engine crawler does
A search engine crawler indexes pages for regular search results. Blocking it removes the site from that engine, so most sites keep it allowed.
Block or allow YandexMobileBot in robots.txt
Add one of these to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. Crawlers read it before they fetch anything else.
Block YandexMobileBot
User-agent: YandexMobileBot
Disallow: /Allow YandexMobileBot
User-agent: YandexMobileBot
Allow: /More from Yandex
Questions, answered.
YandexMobileBot is a search engine crawler run by Yandex. Checks whether a page is built for mobile devices.
Yes. Yandex says YandexMobileBot follows robots.txt.
Add "User-agent: YandexMobileBot" and "Disallow: /" to your robots.txt.
Run a reverse DNS lookup on the IP. A real request resolves to yandex.ru, yandex.net, yandex.com, and a forward lookup of that name returns the same IP.
Yes. YandexMobileBot indexes pages for Yandex's search results, which send people to your site.
Usually not. Blocking YandexMobileBot removes your pages from its search results.
In its own documentation at https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/en/robot-workings/check-yandex-robots. Every fact on this page comes from there.
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